Without profit at Tesla, Elon Musk will be coming back to earth February 7, 2018 Last night, eccentric billionaire Elon Musk sent one of his own Tesla sports cars into outer space with the launch of the most powerful operational rocket the world has ever seen. The swagger and showmanship of the event should not distract from the significance of the launch, or the fact that Musk is an immensely [...]
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk unveils plans to send humans to the moon and Mars by 2024 at the International Astronautical Congress September 29, 2017 It’s official: not content with pioneering reusable rockets and re-stocking the International Space Agency, Elon Musk now wants to use SpaceX to let people travel to the moon and start colonising Mars. During a 40-minute presentation at the International Astronautical Congress in Adelaide this morning, it was revealed that SpaceX will start making smaller rockets [...]
The new space race: Private companies are getting into the business of space travel – and it could produce the world’s first trillionaire May 30, 2017 Five-minutes’ drive from Kennedy Space Center, among the marshes and pine trees of Merritt Island Wildlife Reserve, lies Shuttles Restaurant & Bar. On the back wall is a massive photograph of the Space Shuttle Atlantis, soaring into space on the back of an orange fuel tank. Bolted to its side are two white rockets, spouting [...]
Former astronaut Buzz Aldrin has a plan on how to get to Mars and settle humans there – and he’s set it out in virtual reality March 18, 2017 As the second person to set foot on the moon, Buzz Aldrin knows more about space than most. And now, the former astronaut has released a virtual reality (VR) film setting out his plans to get humans to Mars. Read more: Elon Musk promises the moon (to two people who can afford it) It features Aldrin as [...]
Jeff Bezos is planning Amazon-like delivery to the Moon for “future human settlement” March 3, 2017 That Jeff Bezos vs Elon Musk rivalry can't just be contained to measly planet Earth. Not a week since Elon Musk announced his SpaceX company will be sending two private citizens to the moon next year, the Amazon boss has told The Washington Post, which is owned by Bezos, his plans to set up Amazon-style delivery [...]
SpaceX to boldly go where no private company has gone before: The Moon February 27, 2017 Serial entrepreneur Elon Musk will fly two people around the moon next year, boldly going where no private company has gone before. In an announcement late last night Musk said two unnamed private citizens had approached his company, SpaceX, and had paid a “significant deposit” to secure the mission. The announcement could start a new [...]
It’s lift off for government plans to bolster UK space sector as new legal powers could soon send scientists into space February 20, 2017 New powers unveiled this week will allow British scientists to fly to the edge of space to conduct medical experiments. UK scientists could research and develop vaccines and antibiotics up in space, which grow differently where there is no gravity. The government said today that the powers will allow the launch of satellites from the [...]
Watch: The moment SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket lands gracefully back on earth at historic Apollo 11 launchpad February 19, 2017 Elon Musk's SpaceX has successfully launched a Falcon 9 rocket into space from the location where the Apollo 11 mission blasted off taking man to the moon for the first time. The take-off from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Centre in Florida followed an aborted attempt on Saturday due to technical reasons. The Falcon 9 rocket blasted [...]
Ambitious plans for UK commercial spaceflight just came a step closer to blast-off February 9, 2017 Ambitious plans to develop the UK's commercial spaceflight sector are nearing take-off with fresh multi-million pound funding promised by the government and draft legislation for the fledgling sector due "within weeks". Grants for businesses hoping to send tourists and satellites into space worth up to £10m have been announced by science minister Jo Johnson. "We want to [...]
Donald Trump’s travel ban provokes top tech bosses from Apple, Google, Uber, Twitter, Facebook and more to speak out on immigration January 29, 2017 The high profile bosses of several of the United States' biggest technology companies have spoken out after Donald Trump issued an executive order banning people from seven majority Muslim countries entering the US. Google founder Sergey Brin, himself a migrant from the former Soviet Union, attended a protest at San Francisco airport in a personal capacity, he told reporters. [...]